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My question: [Your therapist] told you, “stop sleeping at home, stop using your mother’s credit card. You have to be your own man and stand up for yourself!” Right?

Robert’s answer: Yes. That was the first thing he said was, “Look. I’m going to ask you to do a bunch of things you’re not going to want to do, and if you don’t do them, I’m not going to work with you because I don’t want to work with losers.”

That was his thing. It was pretty hard core.

He said, “The first thing I’m going to ask you to do…I want you to go home and I want you to give the credit card back.” My mother had given me a credit card because I didn’t have any money to eat.

[He said,] “I want you to take this journey on your own.”

I told him, “I don’t have any place to sleep.”

He said, “Well, you have an office, right?”

I said, “Yeah.”

He goes, “Sleep there”.

So I went to the Kmart downtown, got a comforter and a pillow. That first day on that couch, I was alone…. I remember thinking, “Man, this is a scary day. I’m alone. It’s dark. It’s November. I’m alone in this building that no one’s in right now.”

There was no shower or anything. I had to shower at a health club. (I got a health club membership.) But I was like, “This is just the beginning of something. I’m either going one way or I’m going the other way.”

“I really started running for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running—not for the purpose of solving it, but for the purpose of having it bounce around in there. Like when you say you’re going to sleep on it; I say I’m going to run on it. Then at some point later on, a solution falls out.”

“You have to train your users. And so, Mashable, one of the reasons it’s done so well is that we, the Senior Management, made a conscious decision to train our users on how and why to share.

“We trained them on how to Tweet, how to re-Tweet, why to re-Tweet, how to share a blog post, ten ways to share a blog post, why to share a blog post. You do this over and over again and eventually users learn and guess what they shared first? Mashable.

“And they started following Mashable content and it helped us grow from there.

“You have to train your users and you have to do it consistently and constantly and you have to train them exactly what behavior you want them to do.”

When I hear about a book I might want to read, I gi to Amazon and get a sample so I could try it later.

The thing is, I’m never sure where I’ll be or which Kindle I’ll have with me when I find the time to try a sample.

So why won’t Amazon let me send samples to every single device I own? And, when I buy a book, why won’t Amazon just auto-magically send it to every Kindle I have? Amazon keeps telling me about the mountains of books that each Kindle can hold, so why do I have to pick?

Ryan Carson says he didn’t want to work 6 to 7 days a week. Here’s what happened.

We work a 4-day week at Treehouse and here’s what we’ve been fortunate to achieve:

Profitability (yay!)
$3,000,000+ yearly revenue run rate (and growing fast)
Grown the Team to 34 full-time people and hiring at least 10 more as soon as possible
World’s best investors, including Kevin Rose, Reid Hoffman, David Sze (Greylock), Chamath Palihapitiya (Social+Capital) and Mark Suster (GRP)
Coverage in the NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, MIT Tech Review and more
A $4,750,000 A-round investment
An unbelievable company culture where we’re all insanely excited to tackle our Mission

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